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Get Set For AS Physics Success

Designed for students about to embark on AS level Physics, these activities are designed to strengthen key skills as well as to give firm firm foundation in one of the more commonly miconceived area of physics - electricity.

Developed by:

Sophie Allan

Peter Ellis

Susan Fidler

Sue Woolhouse

P Time it should take to complete:
12 hrs

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Tasks Discussions

1. Getting Started View and Discuss The first steps needed for this challenge
2. Electricity Basics View and Discuss The basics of charge and electricity
3. Standard Form View and Discuss The classic way of dealing with the very big, and very small
4. Current View and Discuss What do we mean by current?
5. SI Units View and Discuss Understanding, working with and manipulating SI units
6. Introduction to Circuits View and Discuss The basics of series and parallel circuits
7. Voltage View and Discuss An introduction to voltage theory
8. Voltage and Power View and Discuss What is the link between voltage and power?
9. SF and DP View and Discuss Significant figures and decimal places
10. Magnitudes and Scale View and Discuss How do we represent really big and really small numbers?
11. Voltage and Graphs View and Discuss Using voltage as a context for A level graph skills
12. And Finally... View and Discuss A few last useful bits

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